[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 7 (Thursday, January 12, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D40-D41]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
LABOR, HHS, EDUCATION AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies met to 
receive a technical briefing by the Department of Health and Human 
Services. The subcommittee was briefed by the following officials of 
the Department of Health and Human Services: Daniel P. Williams, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Budget; June Gibbs Brown, Inspector General; 
Claire V. Broome, M.D., Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention; and Howard Rolston, Director, Office of Policy and 
Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families.
  The subcommittee also held a hearing on the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services--Downsizing. Testimony was heard from Donna Shalala, 
Secretary of Health and Human Services; officials of the GAO; and 
public witnesses.
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on Banking, and Financial Services: Met for organizational 
purposes.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce: Held an oversight hearing on Developments in 
Municipal Finance Disclosure. Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of the SEC; Arthur Levitt, Jr., Chairman; Richard Y. Roberts, 
Commissioner; and public witnesses.
FEDERAL ROLE IN EDUCATION POLICY
Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities: Held a hearing on 
the Federal Role in Education Policy. Testimony was heard from Richard 
W. Riley, Secretary of Education; Tommy Thompson, Governor, State of 
Wisconsin; and Bret Schundler, Mayor, Jersey City, State of New Jersey.
EVALUATING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Committee on International Relations: Held a hearing on Evaluating U.S. 
Foreign Policy. Testimony was heard from James A. Baker III, former 
Secretary of State.
UNFUNDED MANDATE REFORM ACT
Committee on Rules: Ordered reported, by a recorded vote of 9 to 4, 
H.R. 5, Unfunded Mandate Reform Act of 1995.
CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
Committee on Ways and Means: Continued hearings on proposals contained 
in the Contract With America. Testimony was heard from the following 
Governors: William F. Weld, Massachusetts; Howard Dean, M.D., Vermont; 
and George E. Pataki, New York; the following Mayors: Stephen 
Goldsmith, Indianapolis, State of Indiana; and Edward G. Rendall, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Eloise Anderson, Director, Department of 
Social Services, State of California; and public witnesses.
  Hearings continue January 17. [[Page D41]] 
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight met for 
organizational purposes.

Joint Meetings
LINE ITEM VETO
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs concluded joint 
hearings with the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight on 
H.R. 2, to give the President of the United States line item veto 
authority over appropriation acts and targeted tax benefits in revenue 
acts, after receiving testimony from Senators McCain and Coats; 
Representatives Quinn, Neumann, and Castle; Alice M. Rivlin, Director, 
Office of Management and Budget; Robert D. Reischauer, Director, 
Congressional Budget Office; Gilbert S. Merritt, Chief Judge, Sixth 
Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (Nashville, Tennessee), 
on behalf of the Judicial Conference of the United States; 
Massachusetts Governor William Weld, Boston; and John Winkelmann, 
Citizens Against Government Waste, David L. Keating, National Taxpayers 
Union, and Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute for Public 
Policy Research, all of Washington, D.C.